title: What about politics and culture?
abstract: Given Van de Vliert's impressive dataset and prognoses, I will discuss three limitations. First, the evolutionary argument does not adequately take into account how political changes influence freedoms. Second, the operationalizations of needs and freedoms are limited and questionable. Third, a direct relationship between climate, monetary resources, and psychological variables is a simplification neglecting various intervening variables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224; Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 53173 Bonn, Germany. dguess@unf.edu https://www.unf.edu/coas/psychology/C__Dominik_Guess.aspx.
authors.forename: C Dominik
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Güss
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D017753:Ecosystem; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors